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Do public subsidies of union membership increase union membership rates?

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020

Using administrative linked employer-employee data for Norway we estimate the impact of changes in tax subsidies for union membership on individuals' membership probabilities. Increased subsidisation of the union good increases union take-up, while increased union fees reduce the demand for...

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Gender differences in the union wage premium? : a comparative case study

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Nergaard, Kristine - 2016

Trade unions have transformed from male-dominated organisations rooted in manufacturing to majority-female organisations serving predominantly white-collar workers, often in the public sector. Adopting a comparative case study approach using nationally representative linked employer-employee...

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Creative destruction, social security uptake and union networks

Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2019

Does the creative destruction induced by unions entail increased social security uptake? Creative destruction implies the closures of less productive workplaces, and if the regional benefits from this process is not large enough, the displacements caused by workplace closures cause increased...

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Wages, creative destruction, and union networks

Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2018

Do unions promote creative destruction? In this paper we apply a shift-share approach and historical unionisation data from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation and destruction during the period 2003-2012. As local...

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Unions, tripartite competition and innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020

We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging results from early studies that found unions were detrimental to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation -...

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Union density, productivity and wages

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2017

We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in union density lead to substantial increases in firm...

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Gender differences in subjective well-being in and out of management positions

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010

to move into high positions in the private sector. -- well-being ; gender ; management ; non-management ; unemployment …

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Occupational sex segregation and management-level wages in Germany : what role does firm size play?

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2012

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed … managers in predominantly female occupations are moderated by firm size. Drawing on economic and organizational approaches and … the devaluation of women's work, we find wage penalties for female occupations in management only in large firms. This …

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Do women in highly qualified positions face higher work-to-family conflicts in Germany than men?

Busch-Heizmann, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2017

Changing employment conditions lead to new chances, but also new risks for employees. In the literature, increasing permeability between occupational and private life is discussed as one special outcome of this development that employees must face, especially those in highly qualified positions....

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